Uncle Tom's Cabin

The year is 1856. Eliza is a woman held as a slave by the Shelby family. She wants to marry George and the Shelbys consent to it. But the man who holds George as a slave stops the wedding. A few years later Eliza learns that she and her son Harry are to be handed over to a creditor. So she takes the boy and runs. George runs too and starts living in hiding. Eliza and Harry are caught and brought back, and mother and son are separated. George tries to find them both. James B. Lowe plays Tom in this silent film of a hundred and forty four minutes. Harry A. Pollard’s American film was completed in 1927.